[UPDATE 10/5/09: Cole has now greatly expanded on his confirmation of Edmonds' credibility and is calling for a 'Special Counsel' investigation, prosecution. Full story here...]

George W. Bush's third-highest ranking State Department official, Marc Grossman, who became the Under Secretary of State after previously serving as Ambassador to Turkey, was targeted as part of a "decade-long investigation" by the FBI, according to an 18-year veteran manager of the bureau's Counterintelligence and Counterespionage departments.

For still-unknown reasons, the investigation, which also involved a multitude of cases involving Israeli espionage, was ultimately "buried and covered up," according to the official.

The comment from the former FBI official John M. Cole, in response to recent, stunning disclosures made by former FBI translator turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, helps to shore up a key aspect of her allegations. Cole is now calling for an investigation to help "bring about accountability" in the matter.

Edmonds' allegations of bribery, blackmail, and infiltration by foreign agents at the highest levels of the U.S. government were recently detailed in a remarkable cover story interview, as published last week by the American Conservative magazine.

"I read the recent cover story by The American Conservative magazine. I applaud their courage in publishing this significant interview," Cole says in his public response, as posted today at the AmCon website by interviewer and former CIA agent Philip Giraldi.

Cole then went on to verify his knowledge of the espionage investigation which, he says, included Grossman. Edmonds has long alleged he had been a key target in the agency's counterintelligence probe of the Turkish lobby and their relationship to current and former members of Congress and high-ranking officials in the Bush State and Defense Departments.

Cole also charges, in his brief comment, that the investigation was ultimately quashed by still-unnamed officials.

"I am fully aware of the FBI's decade-long investigation of the High-level State Department Official named in this article, Marc Grossman, which ultimately was buried and covered up," Cole notes, adding his call to re-open the matter. "It is long past time to investigate this case and bring about accountability."...

Grossman was specifically identified as a ring-leader in a very broad espionage scandal --- which includes the theft and sale of nuclear weapons technology to the foreign black market --- in a series of front-page exclusives by the UK Sunday Times in early 2008 (the stories can be found here, here and here). At the time, though the paper clearly identified the official in question, they didn't name him outright due to British libel laws. One of the co-authors of the series, Joe Lauria, has since confirmed the official in question was, indeed, Grossman.

The 2008 Sunday Times series detailed Edmonds' allegations that Bush's Under Secretary of State Grossman --- the third-highest ranking official in the State Department, after Colin Powell and Richard Armitage --- worked closely with both the Turks and Israel in obtaining and selling U.S. nuclear weapons technology on the worldwide black market, and that he had even tipped off Turkish diplomatic colleagues about the true identify of then-covert CIA operative Valerie Plame-Wilson's front company, Brewster Jennings, several years before the operation was named publicly by columnist Robert Novak.

Grossman, identified by the Times as "The senior official in the State Department [who] no longer works there," was quoted offering this non-denial denial of Edmonds' allegations in their report: "If you are calling me to say somebody said that I took money that's outrageous. ... I do not have anything to say about such stupid ridiculous things as this."

"Mastering the complex and often veiled dynamic where government, politics, media, and business intersect requires a rare combination of knowledge, skills and experience," the Cohen Group's website announces on their "Expertise" page. "Our Principals bring centuries of experience at the White House, the State Department, the Defense Department, and Congress."

Founded in 2001 by President Bill Clinton's former Republican Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, the page goes on to note: "The Cohen Group's reach extends internationally where our Principals have developed great expertise and relationships with key political, economic and business leaders and acquired valuable experience with the individuals and institutions that affect our clients' success abroad."

Grossman's "veiled dynamic" and "acquired valuable experience" with "key political, economic and business leaders" may well have been in play during the time he served as Under Secretary of State, according to the startling charges levied by the former FBI translator Edmonds.

In the American Conservative interview, she details a great many specifics about the way the she says the spy ring actually worked, and claims that Grossman was a key player who, at times, would receive bags of cash from foreign operatives. Here's some of the discussion pertaining to Grossman from the recent interview:

PHILIP GIRALDI: We were very interested to learn of your four-hour deposition in the case involving allegations that Congresswoman Jean Schmidt accepted money from the Turkish government in return for political favors. You provided many names and details for the first time on the record and swore an oath confirming that the deposition was true.

Basically, you map out a corruption scheme involving U.S. government employees and members of Congress and agents of foreign governments. These agents were able to obtain information that was either used directly by those foreign governments or sold to third parties, with the proceeds often used as bribes to breed further corruption. Let's start with the first government official you identified, Marc Grossman, then the third highest-ranking official at the State Department.

SIBEL EDMONDS: During my work with the FBI, one of the major operational files that I was transcribing and translating started in late 1996 and continued until 2002, when I left the Bureau. Because the FBI had had no Turkish translators, these files were archived, but were considered to be very important operations. As part of the background, I was briefed about why these operations had been initiated and who the targets were.

Grossman became a person of interest early on in the investigative file while he was the U.S. ambassador to Turkey [1994-97], when he became personally involved with operatives both from the Turkish government and from suspected criminal groups. He also had suspicious contact with a number of official and non-official Israelis. Grossman was removed from Turkey short of tour during a scandal referred to as "Susurluk" by the media. It involved a number of high-level criminals as well as senior army and intelligence officers with whom he had been in contact.

Another individual who was working for Grossman, Air Force Major Douglas Dickerson, was also removed from Turkey and sent to Germany. After he and his Turkish wife Can returned to the U.S., he went to work for Douglas Feith and she was hired as an FBI Turkish translator. My complaints about her connection to Turkish lobbying groups led to my eventual firing.

Grossman and Dickerson had to leave the country because a big investigation had started in Turkey. Special prosecutors were appointed, and the case was headlined in England, Germany, Italy, and in some of the Balkan countries because the criminal groups were found to be active in all those places. A leading figure in the scandal, Mehmet Eymür, led a major paramilitary group for the Turkish intelligence service. To keep him from testifying, Eymür was sent by the Turkish government to the United States, where he worked for eight months as head of intelligence at the Turkish Embassy in Washington. He later became a U.S. citizen and now lives in McLean, Virginia. The central figure in this scandal was Abdullah Catli. In 1989, while "most wanted" by Interpol, he came to the U.S., was granted residency, and settled in Chicago, where he continued to conduct his operations until 1996.

GIRALDI: So Grossman at this point comes back to the United States. He's rewarded with the third-highest position at the State Department, and he allegedly uses this position to do favors for "Turkish interests"-both for the Turkish government and for possible criminal interests. Sometimes, the two converge. The FBI is aware of his activities and is listening to his phone calls. When someone who is Turkish calls Grossman, the FBI monitors that individual's phone calls, and when the Turk calls a friend who is a Pakistani or an Egyptian or a Saudi, they monitor all those contacts, widening the net.

EDMONDS: Correct.

GIRALDI: And Grossman received money as a result. In one case, you said that a State Department colleague went to pick up a bag of money…

EDMONDS: $14,000

GIRALDI: What kind of information was Grossman giving to foreign countries? Did he give assistance to foreign individuals penetrating U.S. government labs and defense installations as has been reported? It's also been reported that he was the conduit to a group of congressmen who become, in a sense, the targets to be recruited as "agents of influence."

EDMONDS: Yes, that's correct. Grossman assisted his Turkish and Israeli contacts directly, and he also facilitated access to members of Congress who might be inclined to help for reasons of their own or could be bribed into cooperation.
...GIRALDI: So the network starts with a person like Grossman in the State Department providing information that enables Turkish and Israeli intelligence officers to have access to people in Congress, who then provide classified information that winds up in the foreign embassies?

EDMONDS: Absolutely. And we also had Pentagon officials doing the same thing. We were looking at Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. They had a list of individuals in the Pentagon broken down by access to certain types of information. Some of them would be policy related, some of them would be weapons-technology related, some of them would be nuclear-related. Perle and Feith would provide the names of those Americans, officials in the Pentagon, to Grossman, together with highly sensitive personal information: this person is a closet gay; this person has a chronic gambling issue; this person is an alcoholic. The files on the American targets would contain things like the size of their mortgages or whether they were going through divorces. One Air Force major I remember was going through a really nasty divorce and a child custody fight. They detailed all different kinds of vulnerabilities.

Later on in the interview, Edmonds also claims that Grossman similarly "took care" of others, outside of the government, even, she says, contacts at the New York Times. "Grossman would brag, 'We just fax to our people at the New York Times. They print it under their names.'"

"Every time they wanted something on Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Turkmenistan, for example, they just faxed it over [to the Times], and it was run under their own guys' name, even though it was written by the State Department," she told us. "This was an ongoing operation, at least during a four year period of time" from 1997 to 2001."

There is much more on Grossman in the full AmCon interview, as well as in Edmonds' recent under-oath deposition given in early August, in the Schmidt v. Krikorian case now pending before the Ohio Election Commission. Her sworn deposition, both transcript and video, was published in full by The BRAD BLOG here.

Previously, Edmonds had been twice-gagged by the Bush Justice Department's use of the draconian, so-called "State Secrets Privilege", after she was fired by the FBI when she alerted superiors about a co-worker in her department who had been a member of one of the Turkish organizations being targeted by the FBI's counterintelligence probe in the Turkish division.

Following the dismissal, Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), then senior members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote letters on her behalf to the DoJ, seeking an investigation into her allegations.

The DoJ's Inspector General would ultimate release a de-classified version of his report finding a number of Edmonds' allegations to be "credible," "serious," and "warrant[ing] a thorough and careful review by the FBI."

In 2002, during a CBS 60 Minutes report on the Edmonds case, Grassley was asked about Edmonds' credibility, and responds by saying: "Absolutely, she's credible...And the reason I feel she's very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story."

While we don't know if Cole was one of those "within the FBI" who "corroborated a lot of" Edmonds story at the time to Grassley and Leahy, but he has certainly done so today.

Unfortunately, neither 60 Minutes, nor any other major corporate U.S. media outlet, has bothered to cover Edmonds' allegations now that she is much more free to speak, since the Obama Administration chose not to invoke the "State Secrets Privilege" prior to her 8/8/09 deposition which allowed her to begin sharing the full breadth of her extraordinary allegations publicly for the first time.

UPDATE 10/5/09: Cole has now greatly expanded on his confirmation of Edmonds' credibility, offered new insider detail on the panic inside the Bureau when her allegations first came to light in 2002, and has called for a 'Special Counsel' to investigate, prosecute. Full story here...

My first response is to say, "Hooray Mr. Cole" thank you for attempting to plug these holes.

Instead of bashing you and asking, "What took so long?" Which is totally unproductive, I instead propose an alternative idea, on the off chance your reading this..

I wish there was some kind of common sense protocol in place to cut off access to classified data to government targets who are suspect. And really fast, especially when allegations point to national security. It doesn't have to be a witch hunt, it just needs to do a sanity check such a target is upholding their oath. Yank their line-badge, network login credentials, and access to classified or higher data. Certainly there's some other job they can do while investigations play
out. Even "free leave" could be an option here, and if they turn up clean, they had a vacation, however if they turn up dirty, no more damage is done.

However in the case of a Senator... I got to admit that's a bit over my head. If I had to use my own common sense, I would prevent the Senator from voting and place him/her on leave, but also make it clear that the investigation does not imply guilt, but simply is a method to dig for the truth while not having secrets stolen.

Ah, but alas, with all the stuff Mr Cole does, I doubt he will even see this.

Anyway, this USAF veteran gives Mr Cole a thumbs up for today. His actions as the day's pass, will be my only judge as to if I keep my thumb up in his support moving forward into the future.

Personally, I really don't see how someone can be accused of selling nuke secrets by a creditable witness, and not have his access denied. Even if he wasn't guilty, it's a safety factor. You could even call it a small sacrifice to bring common sense and clarity when considering the
honor of the position held. (Especially when your sworn in.)

And this is just like one guy we are talking about here... we need the FBI to be much more productive when it comes to things like this.

"Lapdog" media, get your snouts out of the feeding trough and get to work for WE THE PEOPLE, dammit!"

Speaking of which, I emailed Josh Marshall to ask why TPMucraker wasn't covering this, and he emailed a sarcastic and evasive answer back to me.

It seems there is this club of so called "progressive" bloggers that refuse to touch this, Steve Clemons and Josh Marshall for two, and I've seen nothing on Taylor Marsh's pathetic little coffee klatch gossip column either.

I, too, just sent a little inquiry to TPM asking about their lack of coverage of this. Mentioned that Daniel Ellsberg thought it was important.
Rachel had another great segment on Acorn tonight. Wish she'd get wind of the Sibel Edmonds' story too.

And I agree with Phil. This despicable story stuck in the US corporate mass media blackout mode is still completely pathetically under-reported. While that is no surprise, these sitting treasonous Congression criminal losers involved do not deserve to be extended powers granted to them of their office no more than an "exposed" corrupted cop whose given a leave of absence or desk job pending a thorough criminal investigation.

Being Israels beeatch is one big reason for the MSM not to report this shiite. Shoulda Guantanamo'ed them art students for a few instead of Al Quaida for the real answers on this. Monitoring military brass' locations at the same time watching the hijackers down the street pre-9/11 means they knew a little more than selling art.

"Rachel had another great segment on Acorn tonight. Wish she'd get wind of the Sibel Edmonds' story too"

"Get wind"??? As Maddow reads The Washington Note, you can rest assured that she has gotten "wind" of this story, long ago, when Clemon's readers brought the issue up. Maddow is just the flipside of Fox News. Purely a partisan mouthpiece, there is no way she will touch Sibel's story. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but Maddow/Olberman will not touch ANY story that is critical of Israel, or the Israeli lobbying machine.

Maddow is just the flipside of Fox News. Purely a partisan mouthpiece, there is no way she will touch Sibel's story.

I can't tell you whether she'll touch Sibel's story or not, but the notion that she's "just the flipside of Fox News" is complete and utter nonsense.

Maddow does actual journalism. Fox does not. Not by a long shot. You may prefer she covers something else, but that has nothing to do with the fact that what she does cover is actual NEWS, in general, and is covered, as far as I can tell, honestly, and accurately, and often in a way that nobody else in our corporate broadcast media is bothering to do.

I'm sure there's plenty to be critical of her for (as there is for me, for everyone), but at least let's be accurate in our criticism.

"The 2008 Sunday Times series detailed Edmonds' allegations that Bush's Under Secretary of State Grossman --- the third-highest ranking official in the State Department, after Colin Powell and Richard Armitage --- worked closely with both the Turks and Israel in obtaining and selling U.S. nuclear weapons technology on the worldwide black market, "

This must be why it is do damned important that the US government now including the Obama administration demand that Iran come clean on their nuclear program even thought the IAEA has said that they have no proof that the Iranians are developing nuclear for weapons.

the israeli stranglehold on our government and media doesn't seem to have loosened at all under Obama so far - he's already buckling on the settlements issue and the MSM of course doesn't touch Sibel's story ... israel is the fiend at the heart of it all as usual

This guy and his whole crew won't get investigated. Her testimony and information alone should be headline news for all the networks, but it's not. And thats because the MSM has been bought and paid for. Also if they go after these people, who else will fall out from this investigation (remember there is a democrat politician in the house that was recorded in a lesbian affair and may be being blackmailed by Turkey). They want this squashed because we may have a ton of govt. officials who are traitors. In essence both sides will look bad, so lets just ignore and the media will help.

Excellent piece, Brad. The links you provided both to the full Giraldi interview and to The Cohen Group raise an interesting side-bar issue entailing the revolving door between government office at DoD, State or the military and the military-industrial complex.

GIRALDI:...Both Feith and Perle were lobbyists for Turkey and also were involved with Israel on defense contracts, including some for Northrop Grumman, which Feith represented in Israel.

EDMONDS: They had arrangements with various companies, some of them members of the American Turkish Council. They had arrangements with Kissinger’s group, with Northrop Grumman, with former secretary of state James Baker’s group, and also with former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft.

You note that Grossman joined "The Cohen Group" (TCG). The site reveals that TCG is led by William Cohen, a former Republican Senator who had served as Clinton's Secretary of Defense (1997-2001). Amongst the accomplishments touted by TCG is its assistance of "Fortune 50 firms in developing their strategic plans for entry into the Indian marketplace, particularly in the area of defense sales and service."

The TCG site states:

The firm's Vice Chairmen are retired General Joseph Ralston, the former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former Supreme Allied Commander, and Ambassador Marc Grossman, the former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. The firm's Senior Counselors are:

• Lord George Robertson, Former NATO Secretary General and U.K. Defence Minister

• General Paul Kern, Former Head of the Army Materiel Command and Commander of the 4th Infantry Division

• General Harry Raduege, Jr., Former Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency

• General Joseph Yakovac, Former Director, Army Acquisition Corps

• Franklin Miller, Former Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control, National Security Council and Special Advisor to the President.

While the conventional MSM view is that an Ambassador, Secretary of Defense, etc. entails "public service," the revolving door reveals that what is ostensibly "public service" amounts to a positioning of one's self for a place in the private sector of the merchants of death aka the military-industrial complex.

The sad truth about this sordid business is that the difference between a Grossman and say a William Cohen may be one of degree in the types of weapons technology one is willing to export for a profit, with Grossman allegedly willing to sell nuclear weapons technology, perhaps for long term positioning in the revolving door game, as well as the immediate bribe.

Turkey is owned and operated by Israel - just the same criminals under a different brand name:

Riggs Bank source confirmed that Perle was not concerned when it was discovered that Bosnian funds were being used to buy arms that were falling into the hands of Iranian and Al Qaeda units in Bosnia and that when confronted with these problems, shouted to the Riggs interlocutor, "just make it fucking happen!"

The FBI counter-intelligence operation was investigating a weapons smuggling and influence-peddling ring that was centered on the activities of the American Turkish Council (ATC). a major Turkish lobbying organization in Washington, DC headed up by George H. W. Bush National Security Adviser, retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft.

According to U.S. intelligence sources, at the end of June 2001, the FBI intercepted two phone calls from Grossman in which he told the called parties to "stay away from Brewster Jennings . . . they're the government . . . they're nothing but a cover." One of the calls was to a Pakistani Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) top agent in Washington.

According to CIA sources, Brewster Jennings and Associates was "finished" in the Summer of 2001. Plame was transferred to the CIA's Counter-proliferation Division's Joint Task Force on Iraq (JTFI), where she and her colleagues were pressured to come up with "evidence" of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

U.S. intelligence sources stated that the "same people" who have continually protected Perle and Feith since the 1980s were also protecting Dickerson and Grossman. CIA sources, including those who served in Istanbul tracking nuclear smuggling in the late 1980s, also confirm that the Turkish-U.S. nuclear black marketeering ring was directly tied to the Abdul Qadeer Khan nuclear smuggling ring in Pakistan, an operation that sold sensitive nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya. The ATC and ATAA in Washington is directly tied to and supported by AIPAC and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) reported a U.S. counter-intelligence source. In fact, JINSA is an "Aegean" member of the ATC. The source said that Valerie Plame Wilson was targeting the ATC and Turkey at the height of her counter-proliferation work in 2001, but special interests associated with AIPAC and JINSA, which the source claims control ATC, scuttled Plame Wilson's operation by exposing Brewster Jennings as a CIA front company.

On June 10, 2003, Grossman, who was trusted by the Cheney neocon cabal in the White House, received a memo drafted by an analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR's) on INR's skepticism about President Bush's State of the Union charge that Iraq had tried to procure uranium from Niger. The memo described a February 2002 CIA meeting at which Joseph Wilson was mentioned as the best candidate to undertake a mission to Niger to check on the uranium allegations. The memo also reportedly identified Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA counter-proliferation officer and associated her with the Brewster Jennings & Associates cover company (keep in mind that Grossman had already compromised the company's covert status in June 2001).

Since Grossman joined the Cohen Group as Vice Chairman in January 2005, the firm has become a top client for the ATC. In October 2005, Grossman was appointed a board member of Ihlas Holding, a media corporation that recently sold its TGRT Television network to Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp. U.S. law enforcement sources confirm that Feith remains under a DoD IG investigation that is being spurred by North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones."

Selectively. There is much to like about Maddow. But as far as Iran goes, she is toeing the line completely, with NO separation between her coverage and Fox News. If you can tell me a difference, Brad, I'd like to hear it. She has NEVER, to my knowledge, mentioned Iran's compliance with the NPT, and seems to adhere religiously to the propaganda d'jour, such as this "secret" new facility, (that we've known about for over two years).

Further, in my opinion, doing "actual journalism" entails informing the people about important news stories? You don't consider the Goldstone Report an "important news story"??? You don't consider recent events in the Rosen case important news? And, uh, you don't consider Sibel Edmonds assertions, accusations, and testimony "important news"? Well, Brad, she has not covered ANY of these stories, has she? And, like I said, if you can show me where she is deviating from the Fox News style of propagandsizing the Iranian "threat", than I'd like to see it.

Look, I like watching Sibel. I like her personality, and I think she has a refreshing and entertaining manner of covering the stories she does choose to cover. (Or, should I say "her management chooses to cover"?). But she does not come within a hundred miles of touching anything that has to do with being critical of Israel, or its lobbies. Therefore, I can GUARANTEE that she is not going to touch the Sibel Edmonds story. Now, if you consider that "actual journalism", fine. But I consider ommission to be just another form of propaganda. And whether Rachel fans want to admit it or not, not reporting on Tristan Anderson, the Goldstone Report, or Sibels Edmonds, IS NOT the action of someone that does "actual journalism". Ignoring the stories is as biased as twisting them is.

In truth, Brad, I find it inexplicable that you can decry the MSM's failure to cover the Edmonds story, yet place Rachel in the ranks of those doing "actual journalism". Is it your opinion she is going to eventually cover the Sibel Edmonds story, or does she just get a pass because she comes from the left?

In truth, Brad, I find it inexplicable that you can decry the MSM's failure to cover the Edmonds story, yet place Rachel in the ranks of those doing "actual journalism".

Because she's doing actual journalism. I'd like to think that I do actual journalism as well, but haven't covered much of what you mention above. Does that mean I'm not a journalist?

Moreover, being an actual journalist, doesn't mean you do everything correctly. It has nothing to do with that in fact. That said, I don't even know that I said she was a "good" journalism. I did, however, say, that what she was doing --- unlike what we see at Fox --- is generally actual journalism.

Is it your opinion she is going to eventually cover the Sibel Edmonds story, or does she just get a pass because she comes from the left?

No idea if she'll cover it. And no, she doesn't "get a pass" for that, or antyhing else "because she comes from the left".

For that matter, she doesn't "get a pass" for anything. She needs to earn her kudos, just as I do. Every time. I don't give a damn where she comes from, Right or Left. (You may have noticed, for example, that Giraldi "comes from the right" --- and he gets his kudos, big time, for his cover story on Edmonds!)

Good work is good work. Period. Propaganda, as we see 24/7 at Fox, is propaganda. Period.

So, If Rachel's "reporting" on the Iranian "threat" perfectly echoes whats coming out of Fox, it IS propaganda?

Only if she knows it is, POA. Fox knows they are propagated garbage. If you can demonstrate that Rachel does, in her reportage, I'll be more than happy to agree with you, call any spades spades as needed!

Damn, make me a cop, give me authority to send the Senator packing for a leave/vacation/jail cell. If it was me I'd be like, "Grossman. Boom yank his clearance, votes, and access to classified vaults/networks, and turn in any current works. Dig and find out if he did/didn't do what was claimed." END THIS.

What the hell is up with the cops?!

Grossman is a frigging tip of ice-burg, we don't need the friggin corporate media to turn this into the next OJ Simpson long and dragged out trial. Especially, since there's other people in line besides Grossman! We (cough, I mean you) already wasted a DECADE of resources on one freaking dude?!

Show some damn results, find out if it's true and if you can't find out then let the freaking man go.

DO *SOMETHING*

Your time delay causes bad power to control our country and drive it off a constitutional and financial cliff, while we are not paying attention.

EXAMPLE: if I had a co worker who told me some shit was going on with a Senator, I would have something done about it in minutes that bastards access would be cut off, if not quicker. Okay. No screwing around here. Get er done. No need for disrespect to the Senator one way or another if this is simply a sanity check protocol.

How long do we endure a questionably rogue Senator using time as a weapon against the people, this is outrageous.

Electronic Voting Connections?
And if I am not mistaken he's also part of making sure we have electronic vote tabulation devices instead of public oversight of the chain of custody of Georgia's I guess. elections. Any other states this guy effecting with his votes on electronic vote tabulation devices?

At some point here, the realization has to be there is a serious cost and consequence to breaking the oath of office. It's a foreign and domestic act of war, are we so busy we can't stop and find out just what the fuck is going on!?

NOTHING that fucking senator could be voting on right now could be more important than finding out if the senator should doing prison time instead.

At this point, I don't give a crap about the media. (They are a discredited failure) It's this country's national security first. And that means weeding this shit out accurately and fast!

Man FBi must be the biggest hidden stinkers that world has seen. They are dealing only with people. And that is the difference between us stupid people and those smart ones from USA. You try to do what they do and you will sweat alot.
So basically we should investigate them. And who is behind those cameras in FBI and why in the hell do they try to be unadaptive?